"Captains Courageous": A Story of the Grand Banks

by Rudyard Kipling

"CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS"

A STORY OF THE GRAND BANKS

by

Rudyard Kipling

TO
JAMES CONLAND, M.D.,
Brattleboro, Vermont
I ploughed the land with horses,
But my heart was ill at ease,
For the old sea-faring men
Came to me now and then,
With their sagas of the seas.
Longfellow.

[CHAPTER I]	[CHAPTER II]	[CHAPTER III]	[CHAPTER IV]	[CHAPTER V]
[CHAPTER VI]	[CHAPTER VII]	[CHAPTER VIII]	[CHAPTER IX]	[CHAPTER X]

CHAPTER I

The weather door of the smoking-room had been left open to the North Atlantic fog, as the big liner rolled and lifted, whistling to warn the fishing-fleet.

"That Cheyne boy's the biggest nuisance aboard," said a man in a frieze overcoat, shutting the door with a bang. "He isn't wanted here. He's too fresh."